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The Obamacare Inquisitions

Posted on September 15, 2010
A brief, brutish history. Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius is just the latest creepy keeper of the Obamacare enemies list. The White House has been keeping tabs on individual and corporate critics of the federal health-care takeover for more than a year...

Skeptical of New START

Posted on September 15, 2010
Politicians weigh in on the president?s arms-control treaty. Newt Gingrigh, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, and John Thune explain their positions on New START to National Review Online. NEWT GINGRICH 1...

Stop START

Posted on September 15, 2010
The Democrats seem determined to ratify this bad treaty. Can the Republicans stop them? At the upper reaches of the Republican party there's a consensus on the New START treaty: It's a mistake...

Michelle Rhee at Risk

Posted on September 15, 2010
Lessons from the D.C. mayoral election In an outcome that had come to seem inevitable, though it would have been shocking six months ago, D.C. city-council chairman Vincent Gray beat incumbent mayor Adrian Fenty 56 percent to 42 percent in Tuesday's Democratic primary...

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O?Donnell?s Challenge

Posted on September 15, 2010
Delaware?s new Senate candidate looks to November. Dover, Del. -- 'I'm fried,' says Matt Moran, flatly, as he stands in the back corner of the Elks Lodge, his black P.O.W. cap pulled low. A couple of yards away, Christine O'Donnell, beaming in a ruby-red blouse, hugs volunteers and mingles with reporters...

A Democrat for Fiscal Prudence

Posted on September 14, 2010
Wisconsin state senator Julie Lassa runs for the House on a platform of common sense. In her bid for the seat of soon-to-be-retired representative Dave Obey (D., Wis.), Democratic state senator Julie Lassa is running a campaign based on 'Wisconsin common sense...

Losing the Class War

Posted on September 14, 2010
Why Ted Strickland and Lee Fisher?s One-Note Campaigns Are Failing On September 9, in a speech to organized labor, Ohio governor Ted Strickland took to the podium and, obviously determined to do his best impression of Phil Davison, belted out an enraged attack on Republicans...

New START: What?s the Hurry?

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Obama administration is treating New START less as an arms-control agreement than as an instrument for ?resetting? our relations with Russia. This Thursday, Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, intends to force a vote on New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), moving the resolution of ratification to the Senate floor for a final vote...

Politicizing Banks, Again

Posted on September 14, 2010
Senate Democrats (plus Republican George Voinovich) look ready to pass a bill that would push another TARP-like infusion of capital into the banking system, on the theory that the banks don't have enough money to lend, or, if they do have enough, that they are not making enough loans to small businesses and need to be provided better incentives to do so...

How Obama Gets Our First Principles Wrong

Posted on September 14, 2010
The First Amendment limits the federal government, not freelance morons. To 'burn the sacred texts of someone else's religion is contrary to what this country stands for,' lectured Pres. Barack Obama at last week's press conference...

The Two Faces of Feisal Rauf

Posted on September 14, 2010
What?s wrong with <i>What?s Right With Islam</i>. This is part two of a two-part series. You can read part one here. The problems with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's book What's Right with Islam begin with the title...

Obama v. Boehner?

Posted on September 14, 2010
The White House needs to find a less gimmicky way out of its political predicament. editor's note: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please write kfsreprint@hearstsc...

The Money of Fools

Posted on September 14, 2010
Cheap political rhetoric like ?social justice? has a long, expensive history. Seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes said that words are wise men's counters, but they are the money of fools...

Obama?s Delusions of Competence

Posted on September 14, 2010
The president overestimates the government's ability to solve problems. ‘Washington: We Have a Problem' proclaims Vanity Fair magazine. In an eerie echo of the verdicts passed during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, namely that the presidency was 'too big for one man,' Vanity Fair now declares 'The evidence that Washington cannot function -- that it's ‘broken,' as Vice President Joe Biden has said -- is all around...

Islam and Moral Nuance

Posted on September 14, 2010
In general, the Left hates the Right more than it hates bigotry. One of the most common self-assessments of the Left is that conservatives rarely see nuances in moral questions, while liberals always do...

Obamacare: Low Politics, High Costs

Posted on September 13, 2010
Over the months that President Obama and the Democrats made the case for Obamacare, they continually insisted that it was a program without trade-offs. They assured the public that the almost fairy-tale scenario of insuring millions more while reducing costs could be achieved without reducing the quality of health care...

One Imam, Multiple Messages

Posted on September 13, 2010
The truth about the main figure behind the Ground Zero mosque. This is the first installment of a two-part essay. Part two will appear on National Review Online tomorrow. Journalist and author Fareed Zakaria has made some grave accusations against those who oppose the building of the Islamic center near Ground Zero, and has predicated his own approval of the project on the moderateness of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf...

The Road to Wahhabism

Posted on September 13, 2010
Washington?s Islamic Center is an example of how moderate Muslims become marginalized. Supporters of the proposed $100 million Islamic center near Ground Zero in Manhattan argue that it offers moderate Muslims an opportunity to practice their faith and become ambassadors of Islam to America...

The End of the Clean Campaigner

Posted on September 13, 2010
With his seat in jeopardy, Wisconsin?s Russ Feingold takes the gloves off. Sen. Russ Feingold (D., Wis.) would like to be known as a champion of positive campaigns. As part of his 2004 reelection bid, Feingold urged Republican challenger Tim Michels to sign a 'Clean Campaign Pledge...

Left Bank

Posted on September 13, 2010
From the Sep. 20, 2010, issue of NR. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has a few rules it typically follows when it takes over a failed bank. One of these prohibits the failed bank's old investors and old management team from having anything to do with the new bank, for obvious reasons...

Gangster Government Goes After Obamacare Critics

Posted on September 13, 2010
First Amendment? Not if you decide to criticize the health-care law. ‘There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases.' That sounds like a stern headmistress dressing down some sophomores who have been misbehaving...

O Vanity, O?s Vanity

Posted on September 13, 2010
John Boehner as Simon Cowell: Understanding Barack Obama. If Carly Simon were a conservative, she might be writing 'You're so vain, you probably think this White House is beneath you,' to accompany the next big tea-party rally...

JFK?s ?Religion Speech?

Posted on September 11, 2010
These days, it seems, Americans are religious about everything except religion. Fifty years ago this Sunday, on September 12, 1960, John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for president, delivered a landmark address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association...

Imagining Islam

Posted on September 11, 2010
Wishful thinking will not bring success or security. If only the fantasy were true: If only there actually were a dominant, pro-American, echt moderate Islam, an ideology so dedicated to human rights, so sternly set against savagery, that acts of terrorism were, by definition, 'un-Islamic activity...

Freedom Frenzy: A Look at Presidential Reading Lists

Posted on September 11, 2010
What they say about our presidents, and us. This past Sunday, the New York Times had three separate articles referencing the fact that President Obama had secured a copy of Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom...

Remembering Patrick Sullivan

Posted on September 11, 2010
A promising life cut short nine years ago today. Patrick Sullivan would be 41 years old today. By now he probably would have had a family, and he and his wife and kids probably would have spent this summer in Breezy Point, out at the far western tip of the Rockaway Peninsula, where his parents and his two brothers have summer houses...

Time to Quit, Lisa

Posted on September 10, 2010
Will she or won't she? That's the question Alaskans -- and Republicans across the country -- are now asking about Sen. Lisa Murkowski. After losing the Republican primary to tea-party candidate Joe Miller in late August and giving every sign that she would contest the will of the voters in court, Murkowski eventually conceded the Republican nomination -- but didn't rule out running on a different ticket...

The Next Joe Miller?

Posted on September 10, 2010
John Raese battles for Robert Byrd?s seat. John Raese is West Virginia's most respectable also-ran. In 1984, he ran for Senate and lost to then-governor John Rockefeller by four points. In 1988, he challenged sitting governor Arch Moore in the Republican primary and lost by six points...

Obama Prescribes Another ?Stimulus?

Posted on September 10, 2010
The president offers the wrong treatment for our economy?s walking pneumonia. For all of this week's talk about President Obama's 'second stimulus,' why do so many Americans feel less stimulated than chafed? The parade of stimuli that Pres...

Your Bid, Mr. Abbas

Posted on September 10, 2010
Until Palestine is ready to offer concessions, peace talks will accomplish nothing. The prospects are dim but the process is right. The Obama administration is to be commended for structuring the latest rounds of Middle East talks correctly...

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